Comics I'll get this week:Avengers Arena #10 NOW -- Surprisingly good series.Rachel Rising #17 -- Fantastic horror story with a slow boil that makes it amazing!

Comics I'll get in trade:Dial H #13 -- China Mieville! Too bad #15 will be the final issue...Locke & Key Omega #5 (of 7) -- Hands down the best series coming out right now.Swamp Thing #21 -- I have high hopes for Charles Soule's writing on this book.Ten Grand #2 -- JMS and Templesmith? Yes please!

EDITED TO ADD: As for Ten Grand, I went in with low expectations and was not surprised. Templesmith did a great job, though. I'm pro-Templesmith. The strangest part of that comic was the essay in the back where J. Michael Straczynski talked about the story going the length it required, no more no less, and if it was done, then they wouldn't continue, which sounds great. If there's no more story to tell, the story ends there. Music to my ears, man. I'm glad that storytellers in comics are happy to actually finish projects and not keep them going long after the narrative concluded...and then I remember that Mr. Straczynski was one of the main writers on Before Watchmen.

An aside: The Joe's Comics logo is, of course, a clock, with five minutes to midnight. The Watchmen resonance can't be intentional, right? On the same page that Mr. Straczynski is (I presume) sincerely talking about storytelling free from corporate agendas, there's a telling detail that says something else entirely.

Anyway. That essay is two pages of stupefying and utterly innocent hypocrisy. And hypocrisy isn't the precise enough word, it's not kind enough, but it's the one I've got this late at night and I want to sleep.

Comics I'll be getting in trade:Star Wars #6 -- Brian Wood! dealing with Star Wars stuff that happens between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back.Ultimate Comics X-Men #27 -- Brian Wood! surprised me with the first trade of this series after how disappointed I was with his X-Men stories.